PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Brenton Butler Case, Innocence Project, Penrod
11 Dec 2016
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Eyewitness identific ation: the role of m emory. Encoding perceive and pay attention to details in your environment. Stm has limited capacity, goes to ltm or forgotten. Ltm ca be accessed or retrieved as needed. Our memory is always constructing and reconstructing what we saw. Factors that can inf luence memory at each stage. Recall memory reporting the details of a previously witnessed even or person. Recognition memory determining whether a previously seen item or person is the same as what is currently being viewed. Lab studies: takes place in lab, controlled environment, easy to conduct. Field studies: takes place in real world setting, harder to conduct, more applicable to the real world. Dependent variables: recall of the event/crime. Open-ended recall witnesses are asked to either write or orally state all they remember about the event without the officer asking questions. Direct question recall witnesses are asked a series of specific questions about the crime or the perpetrator.
